Chaos

NFL will be a racist as the next guy when reviewing CBs.

The reason to draft WRs or edge rusher early is to get players who can contribute immediately on their first contract. That is McConkey among these two. Honestly, I am hoping Jackson Powers-Johnson falls to 28 and we sure up the center position for a decade.

If the next Mahomes is in this draft and falls to Jets position, I very much hope they trade out of the pick.

My theory is that the Bills are looking towards 2025. And the 2024 strategy is to go as far as Josh Allen can carry them. Relatively inexpericenced OC's and DC's are set up to be the fall guys for 2024, if Allen can't carry them to the playoffs. I don't think Beane is worried one way or the other about 2024 pass rush.

Trust the process. Asking is free.

Just so you know, I am not PFF.

Its not about the loss, its about the expectation that replacements will not be as any better. Where do you see the Bills top 5?

So you think, the Bills should 12th?

Whatever you think about PFF, they do try to quantify things that are tough to quantify. And whatever you think of power rankings, during the off-season, that is as good a way as any to see how the Bills are perceived https://www.pff.com/news/nfl-power-rankings-nfl-teams-before-2024-nfl-draft. At the present, PFF sees the Bills ranked 10th. I am not sure what people expect from any NFL draft. Every team picks players. Every team is trying to improve. A couple of teams drafting top QBs, may be looking to completely transform, their fortunes. But if your team is drafting 28th, its reasonable to expect that around 27 teams are better positioned to improve than your team is. Is there any reason to expect the Bills to outperform other teams with similar or more draft capital? If so why? Separately, do you think most pundits/fans see the Bills has a top 10 before the draft, and will any the draft move anyone's opinion one way or the other?

You can't forget though, that we have the advantage of having a process.

AFC East is awful, except for Josh Allen. The Bills should be considered favorites to win the division because of Allen. From there, making the super bowl is of course a possibility. But at this time their is no evidence the Bills have addressed the core problems they have faced in the playoffs the last several years.

What makes you think McD is hungry. Each season he seems to run out of gas, and almost surrender in the playoffs. It seems to me he is anxious to start the off-season.

I nominate this as a post of the year finalist. Clever. Succinct. Brilliant.

I think the history of college coaching contracts suggests payments won't ratchet down for players.

Sigh

Gibbs is arguably the best HC in NFL history. Bill Parcells did pretty well without having the best QB in the league.

By similar path, do you mean coaching for a couple of years longer than optimal, then finding no further HC interest in the league? Or do you mean winning many super bowls with a top notch QB on your team. At this point one these outcomes seems more likely than the other outcome.

If he is considered a first round NFL draft pick Steve Young is the correct answer to the question. If he not considered a first round draft pick he is not part of the discussion.

I was trying to make it easy. No one has been able to respond so far with listing any example of wizard level players on the roster. I am willing to give Beane a pass. Just object to the frequent uses of phrases like wizard or big ballin Beane. I will move from the extremes and agree he has done a middling job. I hope people understand middle to be in the middle and the exact opposite of extremes.

If you take an objective view of the current Bills roster, other than Allen, are there any players on the current roster that justify refering to Beane as a wizard. Or is it more accurate to say the current roster, other than Allen, is kind of meh.

I think Chapter 1 ended when the Bills could not figure out how to build a juggernaut with Allen on a rookie contract. Chapter 2 was shorter, but that ended with the crash and burn of Tre White, Von Miller and Stephon Diggs, the three non-Allen cornerstones of chapter 2. We are starting chapter 3, with only Allen as a bonafide star on the roster (Milano is an unknown).

This may not be as valid as the BBBS scale.

Most don't want to believe that.

Josh Allen on any roster is good enough to win the division against the Jets Dolphins and Patriots. This is good enough for all but narrow minded people.

Every player on the roster should be considered available for trade at the right price. I would even trade Josh Allen, as long as the compensation was Patrick Mahomes and a couple of first round draft picks. I don't understand how anyone evaluates the pluses or minus of only one side of the trade. For example, I would certainly trade Milano for the #5 overall draft pick. I would not trade him for the #180 overall pick.